History of Engineering & Technology

Among the many rewards of America the Ingenious, Kevin Baker''s survey of Yankee know-how, is stumbling on its buried nuggets. . . . Baker examines...

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous g...

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over have demonstrated an enduring fascination with trave...

Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren''t encouraged to do much outside the h...

Sixty years ago, cars and airplanes were still deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than ever, thanks in part to one pioneering air ...

Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher. The li...

Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home gamefrom the crowds and tailgates to t...

A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. S...

Based on the series produced for the BBC World ServiceWho thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profe...

They Taught Us Skills for Life: We are the Engineers! Scotland's labour history has been the subject of many important studies, surveys, articles a...

The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenbergs print shop or the hot m...

William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerstons extensive programme of fortification against a feare...

Presenting the history of the cellular phone from its beginnings in the 1940s to the present, this book explains the fundamental concepts involved ...

Until the early part of the 18th century life for the majority of Britons had not changed greatly since the Middle Ages, but then in the space of 3...

Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-play...

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . ...

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come...

One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His ...

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision ...

Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of ...

This volume brings together eight essays that address the result of a research project involving a group of international scholars. It explores a l...

Drinking wine can be traced back 8,000 years, yet the wines we drink today are radically different from those made in earlier eras. While its basic...

''A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics'' Irene M. Pepperberg''Endless ink has been spilled on AI and our robot fut...